Samuel Wragg

Samuel Wragg was a member of the Council of the Province of Carolina under Great Britain during the early 18th century. In May 1718, during the Siege of Charles-Towne, Wragg and several other prominent Charles-Towne citizens were captured by Blackbeard's pirates as they left port on the Crowley, and he was held hostage by the pirates. Wragg negotiated for the government of Charles-Towne to send medicine to the pirates to assist the Republic of Pirates in Nassau, and Wragg and the other hostages were released instead of being beheaded as Blackbeard had threatened.